It supports headings, lists, some tables, simple character
markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes
some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly
whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark that
structure explicitly using HTML.

Our intent in writing this tool is to provide an easier way of
converting existing text documents to HTML format.

Follow the instructions in the README file. Look out for the dependencies!

This will install the script in /usr/local/bin or
/usr/bin by default (depending on your particular setup).
It now relies on /usr/bin/env to figure out
where your version of perl is, but that should work on most platforms.
The global links dictionary is now built-in to the module.

If you want override the global links dictionary,
then add your own version to
~/.txt2html.dict so it will be used
automatically.

If you prefer an RPM install, look for various
RPMs, made by other people. There is also an official
Debian package, though
naturally all RPMs and Debs will lag behind the official tarball
here.

If you just want to make obvious URL references into hyperlinks,
you just have to install the module, and give the --links_only option
to the txt2html script.

For learning how to configure your own hyperlinks dictionary,
look at the documentation, and you can look at the global links
dictionary which is appended to the actual module file.
If you have improvements for this links-dictionary, please mail them to me
so everyone can benefit.